Inventing the Language to Tell It: Robinson Jeffers and the Biology of Consciousness

Index

Abbey, Edward, 13–14, 99 Aeschylus, 41 “Air-Raid Rehearsals,” 91–92, 104, 130 “All the Little Hoof-Prints,” 78, 79–80, 87, 152n25 Altieri, Charles, 8, 126 “Answer, The,” 81, 92, 94, 96, 99, 130 “Apology for Bad Dreams,” 20, 21, 40, 59, 61, 108, 110, 111–12, 120, 156n5 “Artist, An,” 74 “Ascent to the Sierras,” 137 Assmann, Aleida, 4 “At the Fall of an Age,” 153n37 atomic bomb, 89, 90 Auden, W.H., 128, 132 Austin, Mary, 99 Baird, James, 157n9 Bakker, Elna, 24 Bartlett, Lee, 134 Bataille, Georges, 112 Bayliss, William, 43, 45 Be Angry at the Sun and Other Poems, 96, 153n37 Bedient, Calvin, 82–83 Beers, Terry, 61–62 Bender, Albert, 60, 77 Bennett, Mabel, 78 Berg, Peter, 72 Berger, Charles, 90 Berryman, John, 127, 128 Bialy, Harvey, 57 biopoetics, 42, 57, 58, 60, 149n35, 149–50n38, 150n39, 156n4; in “Prelude,” 55–57; in “The unformed volcanic earth,” 117, 119 bioregionalism, 71–72, 76, 78, 83 “Birds,” 55, 85 Bishop, Elizabeth, 127, 128 “Bixby’s Landing,” 55 “Blind Horses,” 91, 130 Bloom, Harold, 158n23 Bly, Robert, 129; on night-intelligence, 147–48n17 Bradley, Nicholas, 146n30 Breton, André, 134 Brophy, Robert, 7, 20, 21, 22, 77; on “Apology for Bad Dreams,” 112, 156n5; on “Margrave,” 68, 69, 70; myth-ritual criticism of, 25, 74–75, 76, 87, 153n34; on sexuality in RJ, 82, 83; on Shelley and RJ, 147n4; on “Tamar,” 17; on tragedy in RJ, 78 Buell, Lawrence, 145n17, 148n22; definition of environmental text, 23–24; on RJ and determinism, 152n28 Burke, Kenneth, 11, 14, 117 Californians, 72 “Calm and Full the Ocean,” 155n13 Campbell, Joseph, 22 Carnot, Sadi, 48 Index 170 / index Dreiser, Theodore, 152n28 Duncan, Robert, 8, 126, 127; as conscientious objector, 129–30; correspondence with Everson, 130, 131–32; as member of west coast renaissance, 134; postmodernism of, 3; as sacramental poet, 3–4, 140; The Years as Catches, 131 Dunlap, Thomas R., 8 Durkheim, Émile, 21 Duvall, John, 157n2 Edelman, Gerald, 52, 53, 58, 62, 64, 65, 70 Edmundson, Mark, 2, 143n3 Ehrenfeld, David, 75 Elder, John, 144n9, 152n28 Eliade, Mircea, 22, 25, 26, 135 Eliot, T.S., 2, 4, 6, 57, 82, 132, 133, 144n9; and pathetic fallacy, 31; religious conversion of, 5 Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 3, 46, 58, 60, 118; double consciousness of, 97; “Experience,” 13; language theory of, 150n38; organic form of, 40, 57; “The Poet,” 39 entropy, see “Night” Eshleman, Clayton, 105 Euripides, 104 Evernden, Neil, 31, 59 Everson, William (Brother Antoninus), 8, 13, 48, 126, 127–28, 129, 130, 138; as conscientious objector, 130, 133, 138; critical work on RJ, 3, 19–20, 22; disagreement with Rexroth about RJ, 3, 139–40; on “The Double Axe,” 87–88, 98, 103; influence of RJ on, 134–38, 139, 158n23; pantheism of, 129; on “Prelude,” 54; and regionalism, 135–36; as sacramental poet, 140–41; on “Tamar,” 18, 20. Works: Archetype West, 139; “August,” 137; “Chronicle of Division,” 106; “FishEaters ,” 136, 137; “Here the Rock Sleeps,” 136, 137; “Oh Fortunate Earth,” 137–38; “The Regional Incentive,” 135–36; These Are the Ravens, 134; X War Elegies, 131 “Excesses of God, The,” 46, 67, 77 Fenollosa, Ernest, 40, 58, 149n36 “Fire on the Hills,” 67, 73–74 Foley, Robert, 157n13 Friede, Donald, 150n41 Frost, Robert, 124; on atomic bomb, 90; as epistemological nature poet, 147n46; use of word cell by, 147n12 Cates, Isaac, 154n7, 155n21 “Cawdor,” 61, 62, 73; basis in Hippolytus of Euripides, 64; post-mortem consciousness in, 64–68; as transitional poem, 150n4 Cawdor and Other Poems, 60, 137 cells, as substrate of consciousness, 43, 64, 65, 70, 108, 111, 115; RJ’s knowledge of, 44; use of word in poetry, 147n12 Chapman, Steven, 157n10 Cheney, Jim, 75–76 Clausius, Rudolf, 48 Coffin, Arthur, 61 Coleman, William, 43 “Come Little Birds,” 19, 22, 87, 144n11 Commager, Henry Steele, 148–49n22 “Consciousness” (poem by RJ), 1, 42, 44–45, 47, 48, 109, 151n12 consciousness, as fortunate fall, 2, 112, 118; biology of, 38, 40, 110, 140; higher-order vs. primary, 62–63, 64, 66–67, 69–70, 151n10; as fire, 39, 71, 115, 122; as original sin, 46, 104; skull as container of, 40, 41, 110, 111 Cooke, Brett, 57 Copernicus, 99 “Credo,” 32, 54, 55, 110, 145n33; solipsism in, 53 Damasio, Antonio R., 45–46 d’Aquili, Eugene, 16 Darwin, Charles, 48, 99, 114, 117, 119 Davidson, Michael, 8, 126, 140 Dawkins, Richard, 149n35 Deacon, Terrence, 58, 70, 117, 118–19 “Dead Men’s Child, The...